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Policy Leaders Fellowship meets for first time
The Policy Leaders Fellowship - which extends the network to Directors General and Permanent Secretaries in Whitehall and their peers in other administrations, in industry and in the charitable sector - met for the first time in June 2013.
Reducing poverty in the UK: what are the most important questions to answer?
Earlier this month, CSaP partnered with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to host a two-day workshop in Cambridge which brought together experts from academia, government and the voluntary sector to discuss the changing face of poverty in the UK.
Science and the economy
The University of Cambridge will join a group of partners in a project led by University College London to work at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst. The project is one of a portfolio of 16 schemes set up around the country ...
CSaP secures £1.1m for its research activites
Over the past year, the total value of research grants won, of which CSaP’s work forms a part, totalled over £10 million.
Policy Leaders Fellowship Launched
Launch of the new Policy Leaders Fellowship, which extends CSaP's network to Directors General in Whitehall and their peers in other administrations and in industry.
Sir Mark Walport sets out his priorities at CSaP's annual conference
Centre for Science and Policy Annual Conference 2013 The Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, set out his priorities at the Centre for Science and Policy's annual conference - his first major public speech since taking office. Sir ...
EU Bon
CSaP attended the EU BON Kick-off Meeting in Berlin earlier this year. As one of the 30 partners involved, CSaP will lead the work package on engaging with policy makers and end users. The first stakeholder meeting will take place in June 2013.
Tales of the unexpected
This year’s Annual AAAS meeting in Boston saw much joint activity between AAAS and the EU. The highlight was a packed session organized by the EU Joint Research Centre on how science advisers deal with uncertainty in policy advice, in which the Commission’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Anne Glover, spoke alongside the Presidential Science Adviser, Dr. John Holdren, and CSaP’s Miles Parker. It attracted an audience of about 300 and active questioning.
Global Uncertainties Champion
Tristram Riley-Smith, who spent 2012 as CSaP Visiting Fellow, starts work at 10 Trumpington Street in a new capacity – as the External Champion to the Research Councils’ Global Uncertainties (GU) Programme. We share him with Cambridge’s Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), where he has been appointed to a new, senior, post to support this Champion’s role.
David Mackay appointed Regius Professor of Engineering
Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, Professor David MacKay, has been appointed Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Such Professorships are Royal academic titles, created by the monarch. The Engineering role, announced in 2011 was created to celebrate the Duke of Edinburgh’s 34 years as Chancellor of the University.
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